Concentrate on building quality content that other reputable sites will choose to link to.
Why not put your efforts into what you can affect - the quality of your content?
-----> I can show you content developed by me, loved by world (including .edu) I have a fair idea how that works and you guys are 100% right… I would not deny that. In 2006-07 I coded a broken link checker script, it was loved by world, at that time, mine was one of the best in world, if not best. Later I let it go down due to server load, neither I developed it, nor I monetized it, was busy in some other projects. Indexing and crawling internet still remains one of my fav. subjects.
About a week back, I was able to catapult a site from almost zero to top 10 for one of the toughest keywords (impressions are dead low though) with a few 100% white hat tricks.
This is a human nature, it’s about exhilaration… it’s about more…
Unfortunately, we have gone far away from the goal of this thread… I really didn’t know the objective of this thread was so odd…
I still badly need what I’m looking for … Please gime some… I promise to return the favor … 